As Villa survived more and more chances for us to score a second goal, you kind of knew they'd stage a storming finish. Whether that would have denied us a point with better refereeing is debatable. If we'd got the draw I think we were good for then that would have been a very creditable result away from home to one of last season's stronger sides considering we started with three of the favourite stating 11 injured, saw Ayew limp off after 25 minutes and Andersen looked to be carrying a knock (no long diagonal balls at all, plus he wasn't at his best).

Ref Watch on Sky this morning dealt with the issue most efficiently by ignoring it altogether. They briefly discussed whether Diaby should have got a penalty but no mention of anything else. Presumably even Dermot Gallagher couldn't defend the ref on this one.

What we have been asking for, is that the ref and VAR make the correct decision. No doubt it looks a pen in real time. Certainly doesn’t when you look at it slowed down on a screen. Ref made the wrong decision after having time to re examine it. Villa being at home, crowd in his ear probably swayed it. Don’t believe we would have got that penalty if it was down Villa’s end after the ref had viewed it in my opinion. I think these decisions should be decided by the VAR but even then we have seen them making incorrect decisions :-(

Noticed this too. It gets harder and harder to not come to the conclusion we don’t count for Sky. They had looked at every controversial incident across the weekend games, including as you say the non handball for Villa, the only really contentious moment in the game, and possibly one of the most contentious decisions of the weekend they completely ignore. It took five minutes to make what was almost certainly a wrong decision, yet Sky ignore it, and Millwall, think they ain’t liked.

That makes no sense. Virtually all visits to the screen correctly result in an overturn. The crowd can hardly blame the ref if England had followed the norm, He can just shrug his shoulders and say "sorry Villa fans I did my best to give you the game"

It’s taken till this afternoon to get over that result on Saturday. I think the way the match panned out it just wasn’t going to be our day. The players out injured, Roy missing and Ayew going off after 20 minutes, capped it all.

Then to be leading up till the 87 minute and then conceding , just rubbed salt into the wound. The penalty fiasco has gone from my thoughts for the moment until something on a par happens again like that.

As for Villa they most probably deserved it, but I will watch what happens to them over the coming weeks to see how their fortunes go, and the same goes for Darren England he really has put himself top of the list on ref watch!